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Account Receivables and Credit Specialist

Philips
Cairo, Egypt
Posted 5 years ago
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Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team. We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.

Philips Africa comprises all 54 countries of Africa, from the Cape to Cairo, and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Philips Africa is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and it has a direct presence in four other African countries, in the cities of Accra, Casablanca, Cairo and Nairobi.

Currently we have the opportunity for a dynamic Account Receivables (AR) & Credit Specialist to join our Egyptian team in Cairo.

As a AR & Credit Specialist you will manage and organize the Collections and Queries activities according a clear policy in terms of efficiency (priority setting, to do lists, shared customers, registration & follow up) and effectiveness (minimal overdues and queries). You will receive predetermined work assignments that are subject to a high level of control and review. You will use established guidelines, procedures and policies in order to minimize the outstanding receivables and the day’s sales outstanding.

You will report to the Financial Controller North-East Africa

You are responsible for:

  • Accurate and timely billing to customers
  • Performing regular customers' accounts reconciliations and confirmations
  • Reconciling AR General Ledger (GL) with Sub GL and ensure zero differences
  • Ensuring proper cash application for customers’ invoices and clearance of on-account transactions on timely basis
  • Organizing, supporting and developing accounts receivable process
  • Establishing, implementing, and maintaining an effective delinquency control and follow-up program for all customer accounts that are late, delinquent, potentially delinquent, or written-off
  • Performing remaining enabling Order to Cash activities (e.g. credit notes with open items)
  • Following- up on relevant queries and solving escalations from sectors
  • Providing leadership and direction to departmental staff
  • Responsible for compliance of ICS checks

Job Requirements

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

  • Bachelor in Accounting or related Field.
  • Minimum 4 years + of working experience with accounting, collections, account receivables
  • Customer service focus
  • Commercial sensitivity and business savvy
  • Show determination to achieve excellent results
  • Solid experience with working on Excel sheets
  • SAP and Customer Master data process
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills
  • Team player, Open minded change agent
  • Familiar and comfortable with a large, international, multi-matrix environment
  • Mentoring, coaching skills
  • Good level of English
  • In return, we offer you the unique combination of a critical and challenging role and a creative and empowering office environment. You will be actively encouraged to make improvements, establish best in class service and have a direct impact on the success of Philips on a daily basis.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum at http://www.philips.com/b-dam/corporate/corporateblog/2016/PhilipsChronicDisease_5.jpg . Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page at http://www.philips.com/a-w/careers/healthtech/working-at-philips/working-at-philips.html on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog at http://www.usa.philips.com/a-w/our-people/life-at-philips.html . Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process at http://www.philips.com/a-w/careers/healthtech.html , or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions at http://www.philips.com/a-w/careers/healthtech/faq.html .

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